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Thursday, July 19, 2012

A Round Thing Out There in Space

KTVU ("There's Only One 2") News is very excited about NASA's upcoming landing attempt on Mars. It did a little item on the Curiosity mission a couple nights ago. The graphic accompanying the piece was attention-getting. Never has the Red Planet looked so ... moon-like. That's because instead of using an image of Mars, whoever produced the graphic used a picture of Earth's moon during an eclipse. Hey--it's a round thing out there in space, and it looks red. Isn't that close enough? (See this image for a comparison to the one in the graphic. Below is a 2001 Hubble Space Telescope picture of Mars, one of thousands of Mars images available from NASA. And yes--you're allowed to ask whether I don't have anything better to do with my time.)

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A Round Thing Out There in Space

KTVU ("There's Only One 2") News is very excited about NASA's upcoming landing attempt on Mars. It did a little item on the Curiosity mission a couple nights ago. The graphic accompanying the piece was attention-getting. Never has the Red Planet looked so ... moon-like. That's because instead of using an image of Mars, whoever produced the graphic used a picture of Earth's moon during an eclipse. Hey--it's a round thing out there in space, and it looks red. Isn't that close enough? (See this image for a comparison to the one in the graphic. Below is a 2001 Hubble Space Telescope picture of Mars, one of thousands of Mars images available from NASA. And yes--you're allowed to ask whether I don't have anything better to do with my time.)